and i am really surprised how good it already looks...
i am just getting back into the Amiga universe after a decadelong hiatus, and today i finally decided to give AROS a try after reading so much about over last few days of reading up stuff on the current Amiga scene.
some random thoughts of mine on this:
* You should really emphasize the fact that you can boot up the whole thing from cd, without the need of installing anything on a hd, as long as you don't try to save anything. My english is not the best, so i wasn't sure if i have to install anything on the harddrive of my PC to check it out, which would be a big no-no for me for just checking out an alternative OS.
This way probably a lot of people might give this a try who otherwise won't. This is a little bit like Knoppix, you can check out if you like it, and install later on (when everything's up to a state where it makes really sense).
Might give you some more public recognition.
* The "Workbench" looks fine so far. Still some tearing artifacts on the icons while moving the scrollbar, but i guess you are aware of this.
* Using CLI/Shell: i typed "endcli" to terminate the window, but instead the whole system started going down and booting up again. I wasn't sure if this behaviour is wanted or a known bug. It would also be nice to have "Ed" or any other editor starting up from within the shell, when being called.
So far, i really like what i have seen, and i am sure coming back for more.
Can you give me an estimate how many people are working on the various parts of AROS?
Thanks for all the work being done already,
Mike